Clothes drier



May 25 1926.

f c. D. BROWN CLOTHESKH DRER Filed May 25 1925 INVENTQR Patented May 25, 1926.

.UNITED STATES CLARENCE DOUGLAS BROWN, O F BAY SIDE, NEW YORK.

Application filed May 25, 1925. serial; no. 32,570.

This invention relates to household articles and has particular reference to driers for towels, clothsfgarments, or various anal-v ogous articles. A

Among the objects of the invention is to provide an indoor clothes drier of the most compact construction and yet with large drying capacity and one that isrso foldable or collapsible as to not only render it adapted to occupy the least amount of space, but moreover to possess facilities for an aesthetic or ornamental effect.

More specifically, an object of the invention is to provide a relatively shallow or fiat box-like construction adapted to be supported or fixed in any convenient elevated position as against a vertical wall, the same including a lid or cover having at its front or outer surface a plain space for the application of ornamentation such as a painting, a motto, or some other means of decoration.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exact details of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 is a front perspective view showing the drier open and in operative position.

Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse section of the same on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, but with the line omitted and the bracket brace in idle position for the sake of clearness.

Fig. 3 is a horizontal section with the device collapsed, on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a front elevation with the cover lifted and showing particularly the manner of nesting of the brackets, the line being omitted.

Referring now more specifically to the drawings I show my construction as comprising a shallow box or casing having a vertical bottom or rear wall 10, top and bottom walls 11 and 12, end walls 13, and a cover or front panel 14 hinged at its upper edge at 15 to the top panel 11. This casing may be secured in any well known manner to the vertical wall of a building either by means passing through the rear panel 10 or by means of hangers 16 extendingpurpward at the top and Vadapted to, pol-operate with nails, screws, hooks, or the 1 re. l'

Mounted withintliecasing as by means of vertical pivot rods 1.7 and 18 are Va pair ofy brackets-19 and 2O respectively. Each of these brackets is of generally triangular formation, one including a horizontal upper leg 19a and an inclined lower leg 19h, while the other bracket has similar upper and lower legs 20a and 20h'. The rear ends of these two legs have pivotal co-operation with the axis pins 21 of the pivot rods.`

These brackets and other features are practically similar to each other'and in folded or collapsed position they lie in approximately the same plane, portions of the legs being so twisted or formed as to nest closely with one another within the casing, as shown best in Fig. 3. Fig. 1 also shows in dotted lines the folded or nested position of the bracket 20. These brackets may be made of any suitable material but shown as of flat bar metal.

Thel upper leg of each bracket is so formedl as to present a relatively flat face toward the coverl 14 when the device is open and this face may be provided with a series of holes or pits 22 or any other analogous arrangement for co-operation with a brace 23 car ried preferably by the inside of the cover as the apex portion thereof is provided with a series of holes 24 through all of which, beginning with one end hole of one bracket, a flexible line such as a cord 25 is laced, preferably in parallel strands as shown in Fig. 1. .With the ends f the co-rd suitably fastened, as by knotting, the intermediate portions of the cord will adjust themselves as to tautness when the casing is opened and the brackets are swung outward from each other to the position shown in Fig. 1. In this position the braces 23 will be swung around their pivots into interlocking engagement with the upper legs of the brackets as specified, holding the several runs of the cord not only taut, but properly spaced in vertical planes from one another so as to give a large amount of space for aeration and drying. Vhen the device is not to be -used as a drier the braces are swung around to the inside of the cover panel 14 and the brackets are folded inward as shown in F ig. 3, the cord folded within the casing in a natural way. The cover panel then drops down to closed position and is capable of ornamentation to simulate an ornamental device such as a picture 01' the like.

I claim:

1. The herein described drier comprising, in combination, a casing having a hinged cover, line-supporting means mounted within the casing and movable therefrom, a flexible line supported on said means, said line supporting means being movable into position to stretch the line7 and bracing means carried by the cover and (1o-operating with the liue-supporting means while in operative position t-o hold the line taut.

2. Mechanism as set forth in claim 1 in which the line supporting means is pivoted in the casing and swings outward therefrom around a vertical aXis.

3. Mechanism as set forth in claim 1 in which ythe line supporting means consists of two brackets mounted on vertical axes Within the ends of the casing and adapted lo swing outward therefrom away from each other.

ln testimony whereof I affix my signature.

CLARENCE DOUGLAS BROWN. 

